150 years ago today, one of England's most famous composers was born. Sir Edward Elgar was the son of a piano tuner and was largely self-taught. His music, stirring, patriotic and emotional captured the spirit of England. It has endured as music we

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'Anonymous' Suggests Shakespeare Didn't Write a Word What if William Shakespeare never wrote a word? What if, instead, the plays and sonnets attributed to him were the work of a worldly English aristocrat during the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First

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Mondays we bring you our series-This I Believe. Today we hear from Joan Tower, a composer who began writing music in 1956 at the age of 18. Her works have been played by orchestras around the world and she teaches at Bard College in New York. Here's

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Obama Strategy on Arab Spring Served US Interests December 17, 2010, in Tunisia. A street vendor, Mohamed Bouaziz, sets himself on fire in a protest against government policies and dies, becoming the catalyst for a Tunisian revolution and the Arab Sp

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Classic Musical 'Oklahoma!' Gets a New, Darker Look NEW YORK The musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein have been staples of the American theater since they were created in the 1940s and '50s. In just the last few years, South Pacific and The King and I

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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Now a story about some of the oldest stories in the world and the people who tell versions of them today. The Assyrian Empire dominated the Middle East thousands of years ago. Millions of Assyrians are alive today trace their roo

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Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0006:31repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version

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By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 07 August 2006 In south Lebanon, the last road leading out of the city of Tyre has been cut by Israeli airstrikes. That means that aid workers may no longer be able to get vital supplies into town from the north.

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By Carol Pearson Washington 14 March 2007 watch Pearson report U.S. immigration reform and illegal immigration came up again and again during President Bush's tour of South and Central America. Some 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United St

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 13 April 2006 watch Motivation report Terrorism existed thousands of years before the word entered European languages following the French Revolution in the late 18th

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Big Week for the Bard 大吟游诗人光彩的一周 Its not every week that Englands greatest playwright William Shakespeare hits the headlines, but the Bard of Avon has been the subject of two news stories in recent days as new information has come

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